Bizarre alien world may be analog of our solar system’s putative Planet Nine0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 15, 2020
HD 106906 b is interesting for many reasons.
HD 106906 b is interesting for many reasons.
Astronomers confirm bound orbit for planet far from its star, showing that far-flung planets exist
It’s sitting in the habitable zone of a star studied years ago.
Twice size of Earth, Wolf 503b orbits star every six days
An international team of astronomers has discovered a planetary system containing at least three massive planets, orbiting the bright late-G/early-K-type dwarf star K2-229. What’s the most intriguing is that one of these extrasolar planets is a super-Earth class object with a Mercury-like composition.
There’s a star about 370 light-years from here that’s pulsating in response to its unusually heavy planetary companion. It’s the first time that astronomers have seen this sort of interaction between a planet and its host star.
NASA says it has some big news to tell the world.
Its days are short–less than 11 hours–and its temperature is hot–a blistering 2,600 degrees Fahrenheit. Its rain showers arrive in the form of liquid iron and glass.
Using the combined power of an array of telescopes from different locations across the globe, ESO astronomers managed to capture the first clear image of an exoplanet located in a star system 11 quadrillion kilometers away from Earth.
Planet 9 may have been part of another solar system, and our sun was powerful enough to steal it for our own.